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Jeewi Lee

Hatje Cantz
Publishing and Art Direction by Ana Lessing Menjibar

Publishing: Lukas Feireiss, Ana Lessing Menjibar
Authors: Lukas Feireiss, Sybille Krämer, Lydia Korndörfer
Englisch, Korean

A publication series Corporeal Matters an on arts-based research, in particular practices and concepts that place the body at the core. It illuminates how the body appears simultaneously as witness, document, and agent in contemporary life, and offers insights into corporeality as the often neglected dimension that cuts through ethics, aesthetics, and politics. The series hosts edited volumes, authored publications, workbooks and other formats from multiple perspectives and fields of practice, grounded in moments of research, encounter and debate, generated in the context of the HZT-Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin.

The publication is financially supported by the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the HZT-Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin.

Series Editors: Janez Janša, Sandra Noeth and Sandra Umathum
Art Direction: Ana Lessing Menjibar
Design Support: Peter Löffelholz

SHIELDING
Body-based Studies on Integrity and Protection

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Art Direction by Ana Lessing Menjibar

Editor: Sandra Noeth, Sandra Umathum & Janez Janša (eds.)
Series Editors: Janez Janša, Sandra Noeth and Sandra Umathum
Design Support: Peter Löffelholz
Englisch
2024

Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambivalent status in the process: they serve as protection or a buffer and express resistance. At the same time, they turn and are turned into weapons when they intervene on the ground and politically, in war, conflicts, and through activism. The contributors address the idea of bodily integrity, both in a material sense and with regard to the symbolic and ethical relations that a body entangles. The book engages with ongoing debates around the re-evaluation of corporeality and embodiment in contemporary socio-political contexts.

The Gaze of the X-RAY
An Archive of Violence

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Art Direction by Ana Lessing Menjibar

Editor: Shahram Khosravi
Series Editors: Janez Janša, Sandra Noeth and Sandra Umathum
Design Support: Peter Löffelholz
Englisch
2024

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray technology was fashioned to maintain and save life. However, as the contributors to this volume show, it has been a device of ruination as well. They visualise the traces and the pattern of violence, practised by the states, racial capitalism, colonial racism and sexism. By juxtaposing different cases across time and space, this collection demonstrates a set of relations between civilization and ruination.

BREATHE
Critical Research into the Inequalities of Life

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Art Direction by Ana Lessing Menjibar

Editors: Sandra Noeth and Janez Jansa
Series Editors: Janez Janša, Sandra Noeth and Sandra Umathum

Design Support: Peter Löffelholz
Englisch
2023

Breathing is an unavoidable, vital act, yet it cannot be taken for granted, as the experiences of the pandemic, profound changes in our environment, but also structural, racist discrimination make clear. In the physical act of breathing, we are symbolically, materially and radically thrown back to our own bodies and connected to the bodies of others.

In conversation with artists and theorists from different fields, the contributers to this volume explore different acts of suffocation and release. They show how the protection of bodies is unequally and ambivalently distributed and how it can be an act of resistance. It is an insistence on life, a demand for existential, political, symbolic and ethical recognition.